Death Reference Desk

Dying to Be Green? Try “Bio-Cremation” Nicole Mordant, Reuters (December 1, 2009) There’s a shiny new final disposition in town, attempting to gain ground on the green burial bandwagon: Resomation, developed in Scotland in 2007, also known as bio-cremation or the dreadfully ambiguous “Water Resolution.” Cremation is consistently flogged for its high energy consumption and [...]